Help me rehab my 76’ VW bus into a mobile classroom- Go Fundme

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Help rehab the Gypsy VW into a Mobile Classroom

Goal: Restore and transform Lucy , 1976 VW bus, into a mobile recording studio and educational class room for aspiring musicians and underserved youth in the Denver area. As some of you may know
, my beloved VW Bus Lucy was stolen almost 6 years ago. After some time had passed, I had given up all hope on recovering her. 

Just before Thanksgiving of 2019, my stolen VW bus was found in Wisconsin, over a thousand miles away.

It has cost more than Denver rent to pay the impound lot fee + shipping to get her back home to Colorado. On top of that, she needs a paint job, door handles, a battery, windshield, AND windows. But she runs!!! Who ever stole her kept their hands off the pancake porsche engine. 

I’m feeling so much right now! In awe that it was recovered after 6 years.
Beyond sad, disappointed, and feeling in my gut that someone I know in my music community had something to do with this situation. Above all, I feel fortunate and blessed to have recovered her under strange circumstances. 

I got this bus as a gift just after my 19th birthday. I named her Lucy, after my Grandmother’s red hair and unforgettable personality.

I drove this bus to many of my early coffee shop gigs, to every open mic night that I used to host at the Mercury Cafe and The D Note.

I loaded my forty-pound Peavy speakers in and out of that sliding van door into those dirty clubs, back when you could smoke cigarettes indoors, and when cannabis was still a crime in these parts. I sold many hand printed CD’s after shows and toked up with my heroes, in the “green room” that was my bus. The countless adventures touring with my band in the early 2000s, working my troubadour status around the U.S.

The day my band headlined Red Rocks, I drove myself backstage to the show, spilling out a tear or two, counting up all the shows leading up to that day, living my biggest musical dream.

For now I’m so lucky to have recovered the bare and rough bones of my Lucy Bus. I will hold on to the many twists of fate, luck, and community it will take to get her back to Red Rocks once again.

My ultimate goal is restore and transform Lucy into a mobile recording studio and educational class room for aspiring musicians and underserved youth in the Denver area.

If you have ever loved an inanimate object the way I love this VW bus, I thank you for supporting this vision to get her restored and back on the road to making music with kids.